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• Bones,” I sighed. “Know something? I’m not afraid of you, but you scare me….” His outline blurred again. “You scare me, too, Kitten,” he might have replied, but I couldn’t be sure.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Scare, Might, Bones

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• I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.)

  John Green

  Cancer, Congratulations, Miracle

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green and Rodrigo Corral, January 10, 2012.

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• No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is an outline, to give the learner a direction and guidance. The rest one has to do for oneself.

  Louis L'Amour

  School, Giving, Matter

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.12, Bantam

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• If I had two lives, in one life I could invite her to stay at my place, and in the second life I could kick her out. Then I could compare and see which had been the best thing to do. But we only live once. Life's so light. Like an outline we can't ever fill in or correct... make any better. It's frightening".

  Milan Kundera

  Light, Two, Compare

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• I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a brief synopsis... Do what is comfortable. If you have to plot out every move your characters make, so be it. Just make sure there is a plausible purpose behind their machinations. A good reader can smell a phony plot a block away.

  Clive Cussler

  Block, Moving, Book

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• I want my street to be crazy, I want my avenues, shops and buildings, to enter into a crazy dance, and this is why I deform and distort their outlines and colours. However I always come up against the same difficulty, that if all the elements were one by one deformed and distorted excessively, if in the end nothing remained of their real outlines, I would have totally effaced the location that I intended to suggest, that I wished to transform.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Crazy, Real, Elements

  "Prospectus et tous écrits suivants". Book by Jean Dubuffet, Vol. II, p. 483, 1967.

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• I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things that on balance I did pretty well on.

  William J. Clinton

  Mistake, Self, Trying

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• Confucius was not so much a philsopher as a proto-ideologist: what interested him was not metaphysical Truths but rather a harmonious social order within which individuals could lead happy and ethical lives. He was the first to outline clearly what one is tempted to call the elementary scene of ideology, its zero-level, which consists in asserting the (nameless) authority of some substantial Tradition.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Zero, Order, Levels

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• My technique, starting with a quick outline in pencil, is designed to record first impressions, with no time for second thoughts.

  John Newbery

  First Impression, Technique, Records

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• I've written so many things over the years that I don't want to go back to being just a scriptwriter. I'm in what I consider to be the enviable position of all I have to do is come up with the idea and write an outline that makes it seem like it's a viable idea that will interest people, and then other people write the scripts -- and I become the executive producer or the producer, depending on how much involvement I have, and I get a creative credit and then move on to the next project.

  Stan Lee

  Moving, Writing, Years

  "Nuff Said - An Interview With Stan Lee". Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. April 30, 2002.

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• Because I come from the theater, I use the images of the theater and of movies a great deal when I write. I see the story in my head. I have to break down the outline of a story first. I have to know where I'm going. Usually I have a good beginning and a good ending, and then I think, "Now I have to find my way through it."

  Julie Andrews

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

  Gordon Allport

  Psychology, Becoming, Acquiring Knowledge

  Gordon Willard Allport (1955). “Becoming; Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality”, p.23, Yale University Press

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• The only way for us to make sense of life today is to appreciate where the future is going. Scripture outlines that future, not with detailed dates, but with a general outline of what is to come. That outline is designed not to have us prepare charts, but to prepare our hearts.

  Darrell Bock

  Heart, Appreciate, Today

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• At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can't forget it-it will haunt you till it's written.

  Truman Capote

  Notebook, Ideas, Imagination

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.30, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A lot of people think that they are really cool because they don't outline. In my writing group, they would say, "I will never outline. I let the characters take me." C'mon, man - I outline the story, but it's only like one page. It's a list of possible reversals in the story, like things where everything will just change because of this certain reveal or this certain action. Then I start really digging into the character because, to me, I don't care what the story is.

  Matt de la Pena

  Writing, Character, Men

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you get ready to write your novel, outline it first. There's nothing worse than getting halfway through and realizing you've painted yourself in a plot corner.

  Janet Evanovich

  Writing, Plot, Firsts

  Interview with Brian Sherwin, briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.ru. October 31, 2010.

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• I don't work with an outline, except a vague one in my head, a general idea of character, place, arc... I'm like a composer with a symphony in their head: I can hear the music, I just have to figure out how to put it down on paper. But I don't always know where my stories are going when I begin.

  Said Sayrafiezadeh

  Character, Ideas, Symphony

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front.

  Evan Sayet

  Texas, Two, Drawing

  Evan Sayet @EvanSayet, twitter.com. May 04, 2015.

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• I made a point to not read too far ahead with the first six or seven episodes of any show. I would read the outlines, but I didn't really want to read scripts too far in advance because I didn't really want to get ahead of myself, at all. To be honest, I don't have the time to come up with theories.

  Simon Baker

  Want, Scripts, Firsts

  "Simon Baker and Bruno Heller Talk The Mentalist, Closing the Red John Chapter, Arriving at His Identity, and What the Resolution of This Case Means". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 24, 2016.

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• I don't think I'm anything like the improviser. I'm not. I do better with at least an outline.

  Kathleen Turner

  Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Adaptation is always the same process for me, which is some version of throwing the book at the wall and seeing what pages fall out. It is trying to imagine, remember the story, read it, put it down, and then write sort of an outline without the book in front of you with some hope that what you like about it will be filtered and distilled out through your memory and then that will be similar to what other people like about it.

  Akiva Goldsman

  Wall, Memories, Book

  Source: collider.com

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• Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. Don't ever underestimate the power of planning. You can't make your vision come to life unless you outline each goal-driven step at a time. And you can't reach your full potential unless you plan how to make the most of your purpose and passion. When you look around and see people who are the captains of their ship, invariably they have taken pains to chart their successful course through life.

  John C. Maxwell

  Pain, Taken, Passion

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• I never work from an outline, and often I dont know how the story will end.

  Patricia MacLachlan

  Stories, Ends, Know How

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• Oh, talk as we may of beauty as a thing to be chiselled from marble or wrought out on canvas, speculate as we may upon its colors and outlines, what is it but an intellectual abstraction, after all? The heart feels a beauty of another kind; looking through the outward environment, it discovers a deeper and more real love-liness.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Beauty, Real, Heart

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1866). “Literary recreations and miscellanies”, p.366

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• I always work from an outline.

  Sarah Mlynowski

  "The traveling sisterhood of 'How to Be Bad'". Interview with Sonja Bolle, www.latimes.com. June 1, 2008.

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